Guide to the Steven Mailloux papers MS.C.030
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Books 1.1 1977-2017
Interpretive Conventions typescript 3 undated
Interpretive Conventions early typescript 2 undated
Interpretive Conventions early typescript 1 undated
Reader-Response Criticism: notes circa 1980
Interpretive Conventions pre-acceptance correspondence 1979-1981
Interpretive Conventions post-acceptance correspondence 1980-1985
Interpretive Conventions reviews 1981-1985
Interpretive Conventions: abstracts undated
Interpretive Conventions, introduction undated
Interpretive Conventions, Chapter 2 undated
Interpretive Conventions, Chapter 3 undated
Interpretive Conventions, Chapter 4, Textual Scholarship and "Author's Final Intention" circa 1980
Interpretive Conventions, Chapter 5, "A Theory of Conventions" circa 1978
Interpretive Conventions, Chapter 6, Interpretive Conventions undated
Interpretive Conventions, conclusion and miscellaneous notes 1977-1981
Rhetorical Power 1986-1989
Rhetorical Power: suggested revisions, not incorporated undated
Rhetorical Power: pre-acceptance correspondence 1987-1988
Rhetorical Power: post-acceptance correspondence 1988-1991
Rhetorical Power: reviews, notices, etc. 1990-1991
Copies of late version of Rhetorical Power sections undated
Rhetorical Power: Ch. 1 Rhetorical Hermeneutics undated
Rhetorical Power: Ch. 4 Bad Boy Boom circa 1986
Rhetorical Power: Ch. 5 circa 1985
Rhetorical Power conclusion: ABM Treaty undated
Rhetorical Power: early descriptions, notes circa 1985
Interpretive Conventions typescript 4 undated
Reception Histories: revised proof copy 1998 March 18
Reception Histories: corrected proof copy 1998 January 14
Reception Histories: index and cartoon 1998
Reception Histories: proof copy used for indexing 1998
Reception Histories: final typescript copy proofread undated
Reception Histories: earlier revised typescript undated
Reception Histories: promotion 1998-2000
Reception Histories: correspondence 1996-1998
Reception Histories: reviews 1998-2002
Reception Histories: to do miscellaneous notes 1997-1998
Reception Histories: Introduction 1997
Reception Histories: Ch.1 - Articulation and Understanding circa 1997
Reception Histories: Ch.2 - Sophistry of Pragmatism 1996
Reception Histories: Ch.3 - Interpretation and Rhetorical Hermeneutics circa 1991
Reception Histories: Ch.4 - Ideological Rhetoric and Bible Politics undated
Reception Histories: Ch.5 - Good and Bad Persuasions undated
Reception Histories: Ch.6 - Eating Books undated
Reception Histories: Ch.7 - Rhetoric Returns to Syracuse 1991-1996
Reception Histories: Ch.8 - Rhetorical Studies: The Politics of Naming and Appendix undated
Reception Histories: Ch.8 - notes, drafts, etc. undated
Reception Histories: Ch.2- Sophistry of Rhetorical Pragmatism notes, etc. 1993-1996
Reception Histories: Ch.3 - Interpretation and Rhetorical Hermeneutics, notes, drafts undated
Reception Histories: Ch.5 - Good and Bad Persuasions notes undated
Reception Histories: Ch.6 - Eating Books notes 1991-1996
Reception Histories: Ch.7 - notes, drafts circa 1996
Reception Histories: early description undated
Disciplinary Identities: revised proof copy 2006 July 20
Disciplinary Identities: corrected proof copy 2006 June 6
Disciplinary Identities: uncorrected proofs used for indexing 2006 April 4
Disciplinary Identities: copy-edited typescript 5 2006
Disciplinary Identities: final(?) typescript 4 2006
Disciplinary Identities: penultimate(?) typescript 3 undated
Disciplinary Identities: earlier typescript 2 with Susan Jarratt comments 2004
Disciplinary Identities: earlier typescript 1 undated
Disciplinary Identities: contract and correspondence 2002-2007
Disciplinary Identities: miscellaneous drafts, notes, etc. 2004-2005
Rhetoric's Pragmatism: proof copy 2017
Rhetoric's Pragmatism: proof corrections and index 2017
Rhetoric's Pragmatism: final typescript undated
Rhetoric's Pragmatism: earlier typescript undated
Rhetoric's Pragmatism: correspondence, notes 2015-2017
Interpreting Law and Literature: Section Intros and Table of Contents undated
Interpreting Law and Literature: correspondence 1983-1991
Rhetoric, Pragmatism, Sophistry: Typescripts of Table of Contents and Introduction undated
Sophistry of Rhetorical Pragmatism 1993
RPS Bibliography 1993-1994
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism: post-publication report, reviews 1994-1996
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism: post-acceptance correspondence 2 1993-1995
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism: post-acceptance correspondence 1 1993-1994
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism: pre-acceptance correspondence 2 1991-1994
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism: pre-acceptance correspondence 1 1990-1991
Unpublished materials 1.2 1974-2012
University of Southern California dissertation 1977 August
University of Southern California dissertation: final draft typescript undated
Dissertation Ch.1: early notes and versions, suggested revisions, etc. undated
Early notes for "Author's Final Intentions" 1974-1975
Dissertation, miscellaneous 1977
"Still Making Sense" undated
"Interpretation as Translation, Definition as Argument" 1980
"The New Scholarship" unpublished manuscript 1982
"Author's Final Intentions and Conventional Reader Response" [unpublished manuscript] undated
Unpublished Melville reviews collection correspondence 1976-1980
"Not a Good Idea" 1988
"Cultural Rhetoric and Affirmations..." [unpublished] 1992
Proposal: Norton Anthology of Theory 1992
The Memo Book (unpublished) 1993
Jacques Derrida memorial at University of California, Irvine 2004 December 3
Edward Said memorial at University of California, Irvine 2004
Lecture introductions 2002-2006
Reader's reports 1982-1999
Lyon Deliberative Acts, reader's report 2012
Diane Davis, reader's report 2009
SUNY Albany Consultancy 1989-1990
External review California State University, Chico 1991
Ohio State report 1995
Essays and reviews 1.3 1965-2018
Subseries Scope and Contents Summary
Letter to the Editor, Metal Men 1965
"Faulkner and the Highland Hotel" 1974
Checklist of Melville reviews 1975
"Evaluation and Reader-Response Criticism" 1975-1976
"Fish's Interpreting the Variorum" C1 1976
"Reader-Response Criticism?" Genre 10 1977
Fish package correspondence 1976-1977
Reader-Response Criticism, early notes 1977
Review of Directions for Criticism 1978
"Literary Criticism and Composition Theory" 1977-1978
"The Red Badge of Courage and Interpretive Conventions" 1977-1978
Review of Bleich's Subjective Criticism 1979
Review of Horton's Interpreting Interpreting 1981
"Learning to Read" 1976-1979
Review of Tompkins' Reader-Response Criticism 1981
Theories of Reading, Looking, and Listening 1978-1981
Review of Iser's "The Act of Doing" 1979-1981
Review of Jauss's Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics, Minnesota Rev 1983
"Convention and Context", New Literary History 1982-1983
"Truth or Consequences" CI 1982-1984
Review of The Reader In The Text 1981-1983
Review of Seung's Semiotics + Thematics in Hermeneutics 1982-1984
Revision/reprint of "Learning to Read" 1983-1985
"Reading Huckleberry Finn" 1982-1985
Rhetorical Hermeneutics 1984-1985
Rhetorical Hermeneutics, early drafts circa 1984-1985
"Judging the Judge: Billy Budd and Proof to All Sophistries" 1987-1989
"Interpretation" in Critical Terms 1986-1990
"Interpretation" revisions 1987-1989
"The Turns of Reader-Response Criticism" 1988-1990
"Rhetorical Use and Abuse of Fiction: Eating Books" 1987-1990
Hernadi review 1990-1991
"Rhetorical Hermeneutics Revisited" 1990-1991
Iser review for Modern Philosophy 1989-1991
"Rhetorical Politics of Editing" 1988-1991
Review of Brodhead 1993
Pre/Text afterword 1990-1993
"Misreading as Historical Act" 1988-1993
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric 1993
"Rhetoric Returns to Syracuse" 1991-1994
"Rhetorically Covering Conflict" 1991-1994
"Persuasions Good and Bad" 1993-1995
Cain/Garland volume 1993-1996
Jost and Hyde Collection 1993-1997
Measuring Justice 1995-1999
"Interpretation" Spanish translation 1996-1997
Reading Typos 1998-1999
Rosteck essay 1995-1999
"Rhetorical Pragmatism and the Uses of Literature", Real 1999
Making Comparisons: American Studies, Ethnocentrism and Cross-Cultural Communications 1997-2000
Making Comparisons, miscellaneous 2000
"Disciplinary Identities" 1999-2000
Review of Dasenbrock's Truth and Consequences 2001-2002
"From Segregated Schools to Dimpled Chads" 2000-2002
Remarking Slave Bodies 2001-2002
Remarking Slave Bodies, earlier drafts 2002
"Contingent Universals" 2002-2003
Rhetoric Society Quarterly response 2002-2003
Rhetoric and Literature 2000-2003
Fish collection 2004
"Rhetorical Hermeneutics Still Again" 2002-2004
"Rhetorical Hermeneutics Still Again", early drafts 2002-2004
"Using Traditions" 2001-2005
"Places in Time", Quarterly Journal of Speech 2006
American Literary History: "Thinking with Rhetorical Figures" 2004-2006
Philosophy and Rhetoric: Public/Intellectuals 2005-2006
"One Size Doesn't Fit All" 2008
"Political Theology in Douglass and Melville" 2006-2008
Gilyard Interview 2008-2009
"Lincoln and English Studies", College English 2009
Prospect of Rhetoric Revisited 2008-2010
"Euro-American Rhetorical Pragmatism" 2011
Review of Moving Bodies 2012
"Humanist Controversies" 2011-2012
"A Good Person Speaking Well" 2013
"Embodied Intensities" 2012-2013
Enactment History 2011-2013
"Rhetorical Pragmatism and Histories of New Media" 2010-2014
"Notes on Prayerful Rhetoric with Divinities" 2013-2014
Rhetoric Review: "Jesuit Comparative Theorhetoric" 2014-2015
"Jesuit Eloquentia Perfecta and Theotropic Logology" 2014-2015
Letter to the Editor, Los Angeles Times 2015 December 10
"Rhetorical Ways of Proceeding" 2011-2016
Garland Bibliographies of Modern Critics and Critical Schools 1979-1983
"Wars of Words" 2017-2018
Conference papers 2 1975-2018
Series Scope and Contents Summary
Modern Language Association 1975-1976
Literature in the Reader workshop, Modern Language Association 1975-1978
"Literary Criticism and Composition Theory", Modern Language Association 1976-1978
Literature in the Reader workshop - submitted papers, Modern Language Association 1976
Temple Talk, "Literary Criticism and Composition" circa 1978
Modern Language Association Session - Validity in Interpretation: Critical Facts and Fictions 1978-1979
SUNY Binghamton: Comment on Interpretation and Methods 1979-1982
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Session, "Editing and Author's Final Intentions" 1978-1979
Validity in Interpretation II: Modern Language Association 1977-1980
College English Association Convention and Theories of Reading Conference 1981
"The Institution(s) of Literary Study", Modern Language Association 1980-1981
"The New Scholarship", Modern Language Association 1981-1982
International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Northwestern University 1982
International Comparative Literature Association Meeting 1982
Modern Language Association 1982
South Atlantic Modern Language Association-Society for Critical Exchange Session 1981-1983
American Studies Association 1983
Modern Language Association 1983
Division on Philosophical Approaches to Literature: Speech Acts II: Grice, Modern Language Association 1984
Modern Language Association Ideology and Literary Reception 1983-1985
Community College Humanities Association Institute 1984-1985
Würzburg Conference 1984-1985
South Atlantic Modern Language Association 1984-1985
Modern Language Association 1985-1986
Syracuse 1986 January
Wisconsin Symposium 1985-1986
Centenary College 1986
South Atlantic Modern Language Association 1986
Modern Language Association 1986
Minnesota lecture 1986-1988
Society for Critical Exchange, "Textual Scholarship and Literary Theory" 1986-1987
SUNY Buffalo 1987 March 31
Stonybrook Conference 1987
University of Southern California visit 1986-1987
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Institute 1987
Association of Departments of English conference 1986-1987
Billy Budd conference 1987
Hamilton College 1987
Modern Language Association 1987
SU talks 1987-1988
Conference on College Composition and Communication 1988
Illinois State University 1988 April
Rhetoric and Ideology Conference 1987-1988
Association of Departments of English 1987-1988
South Atlantic Modern Language Association 1987-1988
Rhetoric as Organizing Term, Modern Language Association 1988-1990
Toledo 1988-1989
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Conference 1988-1989
Ohio University visit 1989
Kansas visit 1989
Elmira Conference 1988-1989
Texas A&M Conference 1989
Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1988-1990
Modern Language Association 1989-1990
Berkeley 1989-1990
Toledo visit 1989-1990
Project Advance 1990 October
University of New Hampshire conference 1990
Rhetoric and Resistance, Modern Language Association 1990
Curriculum talks circa 1986-1996
Curriculum handouts circa 1988
Kentucky lecture 1990-1991
International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference (did not attend 1993) 1990-1993
Society for Critical Exchange, Case Western Reserve University 1991-1992
Modern Language Association 1991
Penn State visit 1992
The Rhetorical Politics of Curriculum Reform HRI 1992
Louisiana State University and A&M visit 1991-1992
University of California, Los Angeles: Fighting Words 1991-1992
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)/Modern Language Association consultancy, University of Oregon 1991-1995
Stanford Legal Humanities Conference 1992
Miami University Summer Institute for Literary History 1991-1992
Penn State Conference: Rhetoric and Composition 1991-1992
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences Tampa 1992
University of California, Santa Barbara visit 1992 December 3
Modern Language Association 1991-1992
University of Southern California Rhetoric Conference 1993 February
Pragmatism and the Politics of Culture 1993
RESt University of Toledo 1992-1993
Elmira Conference 1987-1993
University of California, Council of Writing Programs 1993 November
Modern Language Association 1993 December
University of California, Irvine Humanities Outreach 1993
University of Southern California Conference 1993-1994
Rhetoric Society of America 1993-1994
Modern Language Association 1994
Indiana lecture 1994-1995
North East Modern Language Association 1995
University of Delaware 1995 April
California State University, Long Beach 1995
International Society for the History of Rhetoric 1995
Law and Literature: Berkeley 1995
California State University, Long Beach, "Why are Fire Engines Red?" 1995
Modern Language Association 1995
University of California Humanities Research Institute Fellowship, Post-Nationalist American Studies, Resident Research Group 1996
Conference on College Composition and Communication 1995-1997
Rhetoric Society of America 1994-1998
SCA 1996 November
Conference on College Composition and Communication 1997
Lausanne 1996-1997
Penn State Rhetoric and Composition 1997
University of California, Santa Barbara, "Slavery and American Writing" 1997
Humanities Research Institute, Dartmouth, American Studies Association: "Comparative American Studies" 1997
American Studies Association 1997
NCA 1997
Modern Language Association 1997
Claremont lecture 1998
Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs) 1997-1998
Lisbon 1997-1998
Rhetoric Society of America 1997-1998
Aesthetics and Difference 1997-1998
Berlin 1998
Modern Language Association 1998
University of Alabama 1999 January
Stanford 1998-1999
Law, Culture, and the Humanities 1998-1999
Conference on College Composition and Communication 1999
Kenneth Burke Society Conference 1999
Modern Language Association 1999
Western States Communication Association Sacramento 2000
University of Wisconsin 2000 March
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis 1999-2000
Rhetoric Society of America, Washington DC 2000
Notre Dame 2000
Penn State 2000 September
University of Puget Sound 2000 October
"Rhetoric and Occupational Science", University of Southern California 2000 October
American Society for the History of Rhetoric and SMU 2000
Miami/Wilberforce 2000
Modern Language Association 2000
Emory Colloquium 2000-2001
Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition 2001
Paul as Hermes, Douglass as Cicero, University of Texas at Austin circa 2001
Visual Rhetorics (University of Indiana) 2001
Rhetoric Chair Talk 2001-2002
"The Author Has Not Left the Building", Modern Language Association 2001
Rhetorics of Healing 2002 January
Louisville 2001-2002
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago 2001-2002
Pauline Receptions, University of California, Los Angeles 2002
Cardozo Conference 2002
Rhetoric Society of America 2001-2002
Padua MESEA 2002
Purdue and University of California, Irvine 2002-2004
American Studies Association 2002
Modern Language Association 2002
Indiana 2003
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2001-2003
Alliance of Rhetoric Societies conference 2001-2003
Modern Language Association 2003-2004
New York University 2004
Rhetoric Society of America 2004 May
Ethics of the Neighbor, University of California, Humanities Research Institute 2002-2004
Lessig, Lawrence introduction 2004
Moscow 2004
San Diego State University 2004 September
Memphis 2004-2005
Arizona State University 2004 October
Modern Language Association 2004
University of Redlands 2005 January
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2005 March
"Rhetoric and Organizations" 2005 May
Rhetoric and Christian Tradition 2005 May
Rhetoric Society of America Institute 2005 May
Melville-Douglass Conference paper 2004-2005
International Society for the History of Rhetoric 2005
"American Reception Study" University of Delaware 2005
Stanford Humanities Center reunion 2005 October
Modern Language Association 2005
Response to George Marcus, University of California, Irvine 2006 May
Rhetoric Society of America 2006
Iowa/Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) Talk 2006
Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI) Review 2006
"Identity, Event, Rhetoric", Malta 2006
Modern Language Association 2006
International Society for the History of Rhetoric 2006-2007
Reception Study Society Conference and Modern Language Association Pub. Committee 2007 September
Cosmopolitan Conference, SUNY Stony Brook 2007
National Communication Association 2007 November
Modern Language Association 2007
Stanford 2008
Balibar Conference 2008
Rhetoric Society of America 2008
Loyola Marymount University 2008 April
SUNY Buffalo and Modern Language Association Pub. Committee 2008 April
Cal Poly Pomona Assessment 2008 June
National Communication Association, San Diego 2008 November
Modern Language Association 2008
Law and Rhetoric (San Diego) 2008-2009
Loyola Marymount University 2008-2009
Denison 2008-2009
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2009 March
Houston 2009 March
Narrative Project Ohio State University 2009 April
St. Paul Conference at St. Paul University 2009 April
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute 2009 June
International Society for the History of Rhetoric 2009 July
Villanova 2009 October
National Communication Association 2009 November
Loyola Marymount University 2009 November
Modern Language Association 2009 December
University of California, Irvine, Paul's TheoRhetoric 2010
19th Century American Literature Society 2010
Rhetoric Society of America and University of Minnesota visit 2010
Classics in the Modern World 2010
Richard Rorty papers event, University of California, Irvine 2010
"Rhetorical Hermeneutics and Kierkegaard on the Internet", University of Minnesota 2010 May
Loyola Marymount University Honors Summit 2010
Modern Language Association 2011
Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs) 2011
PSU lecture 2011 May
Melville and Rome 2011
Loyola Marymount University, Bellarmine Forum 2011 October
National Communication Association 2011 November
Modern Language Association, Seattle 2011-2012
Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs) and St. Louis University 2012 March
Narrative Conference 2012 March
"Critical Theory Today and Yesterday", University of California, Irvine 2007-2012
Rhetoric Society of America 2012 May
Loyola Chicago 2012
Modern Language Association 2013 January
Loyola New Orleans 2013 February
Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs) 2013 March
Kenneth Burke, Ghent 2013 May
Religious Communication Association/National Communication Association 2013
Modern Language Association 2014 January
Indiana 2014 March
Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs) 2014
Rhetoric Society of America 2014 May
Kenneth Burke Conference, St. Louis 2014 July
California State University 2014
Jesuit Restoration Conference, Loyola University Chicago 2014 October
National Communication Association and University of Chicago research 2014 November
Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego 2014
Modern Language Association 2015 January
University of Southern California Catholic Literary Imagination 2015 February
University of California, Los Angeles 2015 May
"Is Theory Critical?" University of California, Irvine 2015 May
American Literature Association 2015 May
Boston College 2015
International Society for the History of Rhetoric 2015 July
University of Cambridge 2016 April
University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2016
Rhetoric Society of America 2016
Rutgers Pragmatism Conference 2017 March
Scalia and Rhetoric Conference 2017
Graff event 2017
Boston College 2017 June
PSU (Selzer event) 2017 November
"Virtuous Imagining", Loyola Marymount University 2018 March
Various lecture notes undated
Correspondence 3 1976-2018
Series Scope and Contents Summary
Correspondence 1976-1982
Correspondence 1983-1991